Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
The ultimate conglomerator
After Rose and MUSICAlive! get through the naming of guitars and cats and other home furnishings (Shakespearean & Marvel Universe, to be exact), we finally settle down to actually talking about MUSIC (sometimes our conversations have to be reined in like a running mare who’s escaped from the pen). The good news is, to maintain the metaphor, this isn’t the songwriter’s first rodeo! …
Skyler plays guitar, and Blair plays drums, and apparently they “both shriek like idiots!” Their words, not mine.
That simple list does NOT do them credit, though, because this 2-piece sounds like a 4-piece: with complex melody lines and sequencers and samples clearly being triggered and used during a set that includes songs with . . . movements …
“But compared to a world where MuchMusic was the main way people saw things, I think there’s still somewhat more democracy now.”
So sayeth Andrew DeVilliers, the songwriter, producer, lead singer and guitar player of Mad Ones, a trash pop band centred in Toronto. …
Apparently Kevin Phillips, lead singer and songwriter for the newly minted rock quartet Redhead Mack Band, plays a custom electric guitar made by Northwood, a Canadian company that “normally makes acoustic but occasionally electric guitars.” …
